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It puts the lotion in the fucking basket

People keep talking about how the scares weren't particularly terrifying, but... I dunno, it wasn't about the scares so much as the building up in intensity of them, I thought. Like Rear Window (I know, I know, I'm comparing this movie to Hitchcock which is pretty much out of bounds)... it didn't have a lot of scares that made you jump or anything, but built up to one pretty scary scene at the end. I guess I'm trying to say that the scares for me were more due to... not suspense, exactly, but edge-of-your-seatyness. For lack of a better word that I can think of.

Yeah, according to them they're one of only a couple hundred nationwide... down from several thousand in the 50s and 60s. They even have the old boxes you can use, although they kinda suck. It's better to use the radio, let your battery die and get a jump when you have to leave. In the intermission they have a ten minute long ad for the snack bar full of dancing hot dogs, in all its vintage glory. It's pretty cool.

Saw Zombieland at the drive-in last night. Super funny, I'm glad I caught it. Also saw The Stepfather, as it was the other showing at my screen. I'm pretty sure no one even thought that one was gonna be good so I'll just leave it alone.

Really Amazing

Elizabeth Gilbert does a TED talk there that I found wonderful and thought provoking. I love TED. We should have a thread for amazing TED talks.

I'm surprised at liking post-rehab House as much as I liked him before. Mostly because the differences are real, subtle, and true to character still. Talented writers and talented fucking Hugh Laurie. LOVE IT!

I dunno, home viewing certainly has its perks, but I felt like this movie was enhanced for me being in the theater. Something of a fellowship with the other people in your audience develops... or at least it did for me. The massive shift everyone did in their seat when the still shots at night started, hearing everyone gasp along with you, a shared sense of unease. I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much watching it at home.

i wanted to make a thread for that one, its getting limited release down here as well - a friend went to go see it tonight, said it sold out quick. i noticed it before when it was winning a bunch of indie movie awards.

whatd you think?

We had to go see a later showing than we had planned because the first one sold out. I thought it was fantastic. It's the kind of horror film I like... not relying on blood and gore or fancy effects, it builds the suspense and terror slowly and steadily with not a whole lot more than lights turning on and off, doors opening and closing, and loud noises. It really draws you into the couple and makes you care about their characters really early on, so you really do feel concern for their well being and get really terrified for them. I can totally see why the trailers were just audience reactions, definitely something you want to see in theaters.

We'll probably all get to see it soon as it's getting a wide release the 16th and an additional 1000 screens on the 23rd. The studio is so confident about this movie that they're buying out 1000 more screens on the week that Saw VI opens. Balls of steel, I say.

 

I really want to see this and pray it's not another Blair Witch.

Of course the studio is confident about it, the marketing has been kinda genius. It's gotten to the point where it's one of those movies that people are gonna see just to be in the loop. I haven't seen any of the Saw movies past the second, but I'm pretty sure Saw VI can kiss Paranormal Activity's ass. (Also Blair Witch. Quite obviously) I would make the same decisions as the studio execs at this point.

I like the story about Spielberg returning the DVD in a garbage bag, being convinced it was haunted after his bathroom door of his closed and locked on it's own while he was watching it. Ryan, there are showings all over the metroplex if you guys wanna see it... we would totally be willing to go again.

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus. Just saw this. Shit. Has anyone else?

Has this been posted anywhere? First five minutes from the new Princess and the Frog movie.

It hasn't been colored yet near the end, it's kinda cool to watch. Interesting that Disney is finally gonna go near the topic of race relations, considering their history of blatant racism in the past.

Finally a black princess, y'all!

About the queen...

 

 

I'm pretty sure I remember them mentioning that she was the "queen" of Louisiana, not the end all, be all queen of all vamps.

 

I don't think her status is based on age either. I get the feeling that, much like our own system, the vampire's political heiarchy is not based on age, strength or actual ability. I'm pretty sure Godric is the oldest and most powerful vamp we've been introduced to thus far, and yet that blonde vampire from the tv chewed his ass out for causing all that bad press with the fellowship of the sun.

 

 

I have a theory about why eric and the queen

are selling v. So you drink a vampires blood, they kinda become a part of you. You become more suseptable to thier influence. It's made clear to the viewer when Eric tricks Sookie into drinking his blood. Well, Jason and Amy were drinking Eddie's blood....AAH....Now Jason's fast friendship, which seemed really strange to me while it was happening, (not to mention his sexy dreams with Eddie) make sense. Sooooo, are the vamps intentionally getting their blood (Queen of Louisiana, and my heart, Rachel Evan Wood's blood maybe) out to garner influence with an unspecting human populace?

I didn't like anything about the Queen character, she just didn't give the impression of being extraordinary in any way as a vampire. Maybe I just like my True Blood vamps vaguely broody or something. Not to mention I'm a bit prejudiced against Evan Rachel Wood... dating Marilyn Manson for street cred and to piss her parents off seems like a bad idea. Especially as he has thoughts of smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer since they broke up.

Just went through all of season 2 in about three days... really, that is the only way I can conceive of watching this show. All episodes nice and lined up for mind numbing hours of watching Eric be SO FUCKING SEXY IT'S NOT EVEN FAIR TO THE REST OF HUMANITY.

True Blood drinking game we developed... Take a drink every time Bill says "Sookie", every time someone gets killed, and every time Lafayette makes a sexual double entendre, and finish your drink and/or take a shot everytime the Bill/Sookie theme music plays.

About 1:00 into that clip, if you don't know what music I'm talking about.

Alternatively, you can drink every time you are distracted by Anna Paquin's gap teeth (hey, hey, I'm not saying she isn't still cute), or find yourself turned on by Eric. But those are rather subjective.

I have to wait another YEAR for season 3. Damn.

So Friday after next works for me... I'll PM you my number and such. :-D :-D

And just to keep this thread on topic and such, the last movie I saw was Obsessed. I'm not proud of it, but there you are. It led to me and my boyfriend getting into a fight :-P

Say, you're not friends w/ Baytorh8r5000 are you?

Well we both hate Stanley Kubrick and the decisions of the writers in pretty much everything post season 1 of Heroes...

I do love Donnie Darko though.

A little off topic, but speaking of.... WE HAVE YET TO HAVE MEET UP! We should remedy this.

I know... I think a drinking and video game night have been needed since about a year and a half ago. And now you have Beatles Rock Band, so... yeah, sounds good. Whereabouts do you live?

Peter Jackson and John Favreau have this strange ability to change the size of their bodies pretty much at will. I do not know how they accomplish this. My personal theory is that they're like Anacondas and they devour a man every few months and digest him very slowly.

Oprah must be in on it too. Seems to go up and down 50 pounds every time I see her anywhere. And I do see her anywhere. I see her everywhere and I don't know why.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/thelovelybones/

 

The lovely Bones (alice sebold-see 'reading now' thread) is going to be a movie by Peter Jackson

 

It looks better than the book!

I have nothing to say about The Lovely Bones, I read the book ages ago but don't remember it too well. The only thing I have to say about this is, when did Peter Jackson get so skinny??? Maybe less fat and sweaty would be a better term. Maybe it was ages ago and I just haven't seen a picture of him later than the extended LOTR special features, but I was surprised.

Why do they put that "From the director of Titanic" shit up there? Surely that's not the demographic they're shooting for. Someone in a suit must have thought that was a good idea. Aliens or The Terminator would have at least kept me from emitting an audible groan.

Well, I think the idea is that the people who are gonna be in the demographic they're shooting for and would appreciate the Aliens or The Terminator reference are already, for the most part, on board and going to see it at midnight. I think they might be trying to lure on some of the people who don't know anything about it, and to whom the trailer would make little to no sense.

Me too! I always have a million of them I want to do, and they always get put off to do things like play tetris, or just lie around.

Did you heat up th vodka? If not, how long did you soak them for?

No, if you heat it up the bears dissolve and you end up with sort of a lumpy syrup (we found that out by taking one of our jars out of the refrigerator to go to a cookout and left them sitting in the Texas heat for a few hours). We soaked ours for four days, the recipe said you could do a week but we didn't want to wait that long. Actually, it said to soak the bears in just the vodka for five days and then add the fruit concentrate for five days and then separate the bears out. The bears get huge with all the vodka in them, it's pretty cool.

I had found that gummy bear recipe online not too long ago... I'll have to find it again and compare with you, Amandapillar.

 

PS I hadn't tried it yet... I really want to, though!

I think we got ours off Instructables. We should totally compare recipes and then HOST A DFW MEETUP :-D

This and the Cool Creatures thread are totally my favorites.

All due respect, your friends sound like dickheads.

I agree. They're pretentious. It's less anachronisms though, and more the events. And if they mess around with motivation, pretending they did something for a different reason than they really did it. Of course, without the adding and subtracting of storylines and motivation, you generally don't have a very exciting movie.

I tell them that they don't even know what historical inaccuracies there are in their history books, as we weren't there and have no idea what the scholars have gotten wrong.

I mean, after all, Jesus and Cleopatra were black.

Yeah, I have friends that refuse to watch anything that isn't historically accurate, (walked out of Gladiator, no joke) but there isn't much out there that is.

As far as Basterds goes, I would even argue that it can't be properly called historically inaccurate, because it's not trying to portray actual historical events. An actual historical context is as far as they go.

Just saw 9... visually wonderful, and I loved the themes. The story could have been expanded a bit, I think, but I think that about a lot of the things Tim Burton is involved in. Though he only produced this, so I'm not sure how much of the fault I can put on him.

And I saw Inglorious Basterds for the second time the other day, and was thrilled to find out it was even better the second time. Jesus, just the opening scene could have been a short film in and of itself, it was so goddamned brilliant. That french actress that played Shosanna (Melanie Laurent, IMDB says) really did the most credit to minimalist acting I've seen in awhile, quite apart from being really cute, and the german guy who was Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) was the complete opposite in acting style and is just super amazing... funny and polite and shrewd. Truly wonderful.

As far as the movie goes, you're meant to know that it's not trying to be a historical film from pretty much the very beginning, because the Inglorious Basterds didn't exist. And a bunch of other stuff that's completely historically inaccurate. And as far as the Kill Bill similarity, I didn't think it was too striking. Yes, they're both sort of revenge fantasy, alternate realities, but that's pretty much it. It wasn't as much the tale of Shosanna going for revenge as much as Kill Bill was for Beatrix. And as much as I absolutely adore Kill Bill (and anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely adore those ((that? he always said it was more one continuing story than a story and it's sequel))) movies, and have watched them over and over again, I think this one was better.

Yay for going to the movies! I wish it wasn't fucking 20 dollars a pop to go see them.

I did this with gummy bears the other day. They don't dissolve or anything, so you end up with bear flavored vodka plus delicious vodka soaked bears that are similar to little jello shots. You just soak the bears for longer, and then put some fruit concentrate on them after you take them out of the vodka. It was pretty delicious

That is exactly what I thought during the whole of watching The Shining... I loved the book, and the movie completely missed the point.

As far as King goes, I wouldn't have thought 1408 would be one of his favorites... and I would think that Misery would be up there. Interesting.

I've seen Dr. Strangelove, but it's been awhile. I remember laughing at the end with the arm and the salute... though it reminded me of that episode of Fawlty Towers with the Germans.

But 2001 was even worse the second time... because I knew what was really supposed to be going on (mostly at the beginning with the man-apes and the end). When the shot of a spaceship doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING passed the three minute mark, I gave up on the thought of enjoying it. Ugh.